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Mbaye Diagne

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I read the following article this morning and was impelled to write something about this man.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/201…


Captain Mbaye Diagne, a United Nations peacekeeper in Rwanda, died on the 31st May 1994. It's been 20 years since the genocide...Worried

The country plunged into war and genocide on 6 April 1994, when the plane carrying the Rwandan president, a member of the majority Hutu population, was shot down. Everyone on board was killed. Within hours Hutu extremists seized power and a tidal wave of murder was unleashed against the minority Tutsi population, and anyone prepared to defend them.

“He had a sense of humanity that went well beyond orders, well beyond any mandate."

“It was a very, very difficult day,” says Dallaire, who is now a senator in the Canadian Parliament. “[There were] so many, but it stood out because we lost one of those shining lights, one of those beacon-type guys who influences others.”



A real life hero. Superman :worship:
"The forgotten angel of Rwanda" - a beautiful sad title to the story of this great man.


part II also available



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No idea if this is real (i.e. Charlie Chaplin's own words) still, I find it quite inspiring.

When I started loving myself - A poem by Charlie Chaplin written on his 70th birthday on April 16, 1959:

When I started loving myself
I understood that I’m always and at any given opportunity
in the right place at the right time.
And I understood that all that happens is right –
from then on I could be calm.
Today I know: It’s called TRUST.

When I started to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody
When I tried to force my desires on this person,
even though I knew the time is not right and the person was not ready for it,
and even though this person was me.
Today I know: It’s called LETTING GO

When I started loving myself
I could recognize that emotional pain and grief
are just warnings for me to not live against my own truth.
Today I know: It’s called AUTHENTICALLY BEING.

When I started loving myself
I stopped longing for another life
and could see that everything around me was a request to grow.
Today I know: It’s called MATURITY.

When I started loving myself
I stopped depriving myself of my free time
and stopped sketching further magnificent projects for the future.
Today I only do what’s fun and joy for me,
what I love and what makes my heart laugh,
in my own way and in my tempo.
Today I know: it’s called HONESTY.

When I started loving myself
I escaped from all what wasn’t healthy for me,
from dishes, people, things, situations
and from everyhting pulling me down and away from myself.
In the beginning I called it the “healthy egoism”,
but today I know: it’s called SELF-LOVE.

When I started loving myself
I stopped wanting to be always right
thus I’ve been less wrong.
Today I’ve recognized: it’s called HUMBLENESS.

When I started loving myself
I refused to live further in the past
and worry about my future.
Now I live only at this moment where EVERYTHING takes place,
like this I live every day and I call it CONSCIOUSNESS.

When I started loving myself
I recognized, that my thinking
can make me miserable and sick.
When I requested for my heart forces,
my mind got an important partner.
Today I call this connection HEART WISDOM.

We do not need to fear further discussions,
conflicts and problems with ourselves and others
since even stars sometimes bang on each other
and create new worlds.
Today I know: THIS IS LIFE!
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:D

Just recently I found that this incredible museum offers some of their publications to be viewed online and/or downloaded for free:
www.metmuseum.org/research/met…


The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."

MetPublications
is a portal to the Met's comprehensive publishing program with 1,300 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades.
 

Enjoy the quality. :)
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PORTOCARTOON

1 min read
Porto has been hosting this fantastic event/contest since 1999.
Here, www.cartoonvirtualmuseum.org/f… , the door to this fantastic museum.
Amazing talented artists with some incredible imagination. :nod:

There is so much more to see on the real museum but I believe this is a good sample of what it contains. Please visit if you can. Promess you won't regret. :)


"Atrapados", Angel Boligan (México)



"Untitled", Mihai Ignat (Romania)

"In the air tonight", Jerzy Gluszek (Poland)


“La Scalla”, Alessandro Gatto (Italy)


"Untitled", Grzegorz Szumovski (Poland)


Have a great week! :hug:

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So... this gift came earlier :D (and it was a total surprise). :dance:

Please, do yourselves a favor and go check :iconfeese:'s (beautiful and generous girl from Germany with a - I dare to say - Portuguese heart) beautiful gallery.


Here's a small sample of what you'll encounter:

Coming back home. by feese Take life easy. by feese The beyond by feese

This is life. by feese

  Unite. II by feese Stuck. by feese

To reach you.. by feese

You're golden. by feese Noble. by feese  Tulipa da Esperanca by feese

Muito Obrigada Astrid!
Licht. by feese
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